Archive for July, 2006
July 28, 2006 at 11:26 am · Filed under General
Today’s Straits Times… first page of home section… damn big sia! Diesel Price War! Chey, not say like as if diesel is being giving away freely lidat…
Exxon Mobile executive, when interviewed, actually kao peh… say they cannot tahan anymore… say they lost $8.1 million a day just by doing that!
I say, then don’t discount lor… maintain price and then let people go pump elsewhere lor… kao peh for wat?
Anyway, I think Exxon Mobile should fire this chap who kao peh they lose money… cos Exxon actually announced this morning that they make money until nose bleed.
July 28, 2006 at 9:52 am · Filed under General
Ah… sweet… our generosity at work again. We just pledged US$50K to Lebanon…
This is by no means a huge sum of money for peasants like me, however, if we look at it from a larger picture, this is not even worth one peanut… this is probably like maybe one sixth of a peanut. Maybe we should just send them a jar of Skippy peanut butter… heh heh…
My question is, why so kiam siap… only pledge US$50K? You can’t even buy a Lexus IS250 in Singapore with this kind of moolah lor…
Really ah, I think if lidat, might as well don’t give lor… damn lak seh man!
July 26, 2006 at 6:16 pm · Filed under General
Commuters in Singapore can rejoice! In the midst of public transport fee ‘adjustments’, the Public Transport Commission has decided that public transport company must have certain levels of service to adhere to or risk getting slapped with a fine.
I mean if you pay more, then must have better service mah… fair right?
The service standards cover six essential aspects of service -
* Bus service reliability - for example, at least 85 percent of bus services should not deviate more than 5 minutes from the scheduled frequency
* Loading - for example, weekday peak period bus loading shouldn’t exceed 95 percent
* Safety
* Provision of information
* Availability of bus services
* Integration with other modes of public transport
This idea looks damn good man. Companies, scared kena fine, sure provide good service one right? Ok, set. Can sell car, take bus liao.
Ur… wait ah… what if these companies kena fine until buay tahan leh? Fines slapped on them is like operational cost right? So… operational cost increase then what happen leh?
‘Adjust’ prices lor…
Lidat then who really suffer for poor service? You say leh? You say leh?
Toad, the soothsayer says, “Service standards will remain world class*. But public transport prices will definitely be first class.”
*Most parts of the world do not have public transports… so tell me, do we really want to aim for world class ah?
July 25, 2006 at 12:17 pm · Filed under General
Spent the weekend on the dusty Indonesian Island of Batam. When I told a friend about it, all I got was a “Why you dirty old man.” comment.
Well, I did get downright dirty… riding 140km of the Barelang Highway isn’t exactly the right kind of thing to be doing to stay squeaky clean. Heh heh…
After 6 hours of riding, you get all kinds of grime stuck to your body with a nice sunburnt skin to match.
Getting the bicycles onto the ferry was a puzzling experience. We had to wheel our bicycles up to the second floor… for check-in. I was like… ferry upstairs meh?
Then when we entered the ferry, the bicycles were there… in the same place. The clowns from the other side of the counter kind of just wheeled them back down.
The ferry was unbelievably crowded… with a lot of imaginary friends. Seats that looked empty were apparently occupied by ‘friends’ that never appeared.
The bus ride to the hotel took about an hour, and gave us a preview of the hills to come. In fact, we were so intimidated by the hills that we decided that we had to eat more to fuel ourselves the for ride. Club Sandwich, Carbonara, Nasi Goreng, Mee Goreng, Beer Bintang… everyone had something…
Breakfast in the hotel sucked big time. The only good thing about breakfast was the expresso machine. I was glad I had mee goreng in a corner stall the night before.
9am, the ride began… 10 km from the Holiday Inn to the beginning of the Barelang Highway… 10km more to the start of the first bridge… some hills to prepare us for what’s to come.
The ride to the first bridge was awesome. As we approached the first bridge, the grandeur of its massive cable stays appear before us, slowly revealing the whole bridge.
The next bridge was not too far ahead, however with the numerous rolling hills to cover, I soon lost count of the numeber of bridges crossed.
What seemed like a highway of endless hills finally ended with a small roundabout.
20 minutes of replenishing ourselves with nourisments, we were back on the road again. Thos endless rolling hills… finally, after 6 hours of ass breaking spinning, we were back at the hotel… indeed a ride worth remembering…
July 25, 2006 at 9:02 am · Filed under General
I guess this pretty much sums up what love is, doesn’t it? Heh heh… one of my favourite song from a long time ago by Concrete Blonde.
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The prey of the beast
screamed bloody murder
The line is so fine
between hoping and hurting
Former believers
they beg for release
As love looking down on them
smiles and picks his teeth
Trapped in between
heaven and hell
he knows all the secrets
and don’t want to tell
There’s nowhere to run
and there’s nowhere to hide
Love knows you all too well
He will find you
Love is the ghost
haunting your head
Love is the killer
you thought was your friend
Love is the creature
who lives in the dark
Sneaks up, will stick you
and painfully pick you apart
Love is a poet,
love sings the songs
Pointing his finger
you follow along
Voice are calling,
the monster wants out of you
paws you and claws you,
you try not to fall
Love is the leech,
sucking you up
Love is a vampire,
drunk on your blood
Love is the beast
that will tear out your heart
Hungrily lick it
and painfully pick it apart
Love is a ghost,
haunting your head
Love is the killer
you thought was your friend
Love is the teacher
who lives in the dark
Sneak up and stick you
and painfully pick you apart
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